A Long Way from Home

by Peter Carey

Book Overview

Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter the 1954 Redex Trial, a weeks-long endurance contest of a car race that circles the entire continent. With them is their lanky, fair-haired navigator: deposed quiz show champion and failed schoolteacher Willie Bachhuber. If they win the Redex, the Bobs name alone will get them a dealership, and Willie will have recharged a life currently...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525520171
• ISBN13: 9780525520177
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"